Nikol Pashinyan declares that businessmen should adapt to the new markets, the opportunity of which has been provided by the government.

On the one hand, this statement is a manifestation of the economic ignorance and illiteracy of Nikol Pashinyan and his team, and on the other hand, of course, the ability to master information manipulation.

The government has decided to subsidize exports of agricultural and processing industry in new directions. And this is considered as a new market opportunity. In fact, in today’s oversaturated world, where even super players and super producers fight hard for markets, the Armenian exporter cannot simply find a new market or “adapt” to a new market thanks to government subsidies.

In that case, the main task of the government should be not to create problems for the businessmen in the already existing markets, where they have adapted, where they have logistical connections, where more or less stable supply chains are formed, where even in case of problems, there are more or less polished methods and mechanisms for solutions.

For Armenia’s modest size economy, for Armenia’s modest geopolitical role, this should be the government’s top priority: not to do anything that will disrupt the work of Armenian businesses in existing markets. Meanwhile, based on the political and governmental conjuncture, the Armenian government creates serious problems there, and tries to “compensate” them with information-manipulative skills, not with real new markets.

Analyst Hakob Badalyan

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